Chris Beneke Pauline Maier passed away Monday . Her academic title was William Kenan Jr. Professor of History at the Massachusetts Ins...

Heather Cox Richardson Well, first you need a good household staff. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA…. OK, now that we’ve got the hilarity out of ...

Heather Cox Richardson A recent study shows that having children hurts women in academia at every stage of the profession. This will n...

Alan Bliss As part of its sanctions against Penn State University, the NCAA last week "vacated" 111 of the Nittany Lions' ...

Dan Allosso Graduate students in the humanities are well aware that, in the words of Inside Higher Ed this week, many of our disciplines h...

Heather Cox Richardson Dan’s post of earlier this week coincided nicely with a conversation I had recently about what makes a good graduate...

. A lively forum in the January issue of Historically Speaking critiques some of the assumptions of academic history. Here are selections ...

Heather Cox Richardson Randall asked a good question in his post wondering whether or not college and university professors are encouraged t...

Randall Stephens There is nothing like ringing in the near year with bad news . . . But, here goes. The history job market is still bleak. ...

Randall Stephens Academics are, by nature, hand wringers. We worry about the decline in the humanities. We worry about grade inflation. ...

Randall Stephens "Why is the academic novel my favorite genre?" asks American literary critic Elaine Showalter in Faculty Towers:...

Randall Stephens Read Christopher Shea's review essay in the NYT : "The End of Tenure?" Quite a few American's outside t...

Randall Stephens Standards, standards, impact, impact. In recent years historians in the UK have had the Research Assessment Exercise to co...

~~ The following appeared in recent days. Just when you thought there could not be any more essays or forums on the decline in liberal arts...

Scott Jaschik, "Historians, Sons, Daughters," Inside Higher Ed, January 12, 2010 SAN DIEGO -- When Adam Davis was growing up and w...

Over at The Way of Imrpovement Leads Home , John Fea offers hints for all those individuals interviewing for history jobs at the AHA, ASCH, ...

Heather Cox Richardson Please remember that your professors are human and it’s hard work to stand in front of a hundred pairs of eyes and ta...

Randall J. Stephens Patricia Cohen reports on the steady drop in college courses offered on diplomatic, economic, and intellectual history i...